TiHabanero

Made this diaper for the rear under chain stay mounted roller cam brake. Front has a different design so it drains out the bottom and not out the cable entry point. Waterproofed with Snoseal.

Trakhak

What material did you use? As I mentioned in a recent roller cam thread, the Suntour-branded cover was made of thin leather and the flaps were fastened at the back with Velcro.

wheelreason

So the design of that liner Depends on what? wonder if they will "catch on"...

mstateglfr 

Creative, but this should also go a long way towards answering the question in your other recent roller cam thread.

Rick_D

Clever.
My '80s Fisher had a Cordura and Velcro cozy over the works--worked well keeping debris off, an extra thing to remove before checking or doing maintenance on it.

TiHabanero

Wheelreason, clever my friend!

The diapers are made from suede I had left over from a previous project. Snaps are stainless steel. I did not want hook and loop closures. It was a fun little project that is sure to minimize brake maintenance at the rear. On the front it was just for the fun of making the diaper differently from the rear.
As for removing them, the front has 4 snaps and comes off within a few seconds. The rear has two snaps and comes off a few seconds slower than the front due to the location of the brake under the chain stays.
I chose a diaper design over a bib design figuring that sealing off the roller area forward and aft will help do a better job of keeping gunk out of them.

Dan Burkhart 

Except that the usual function of a diaper is to keep the gunk in, not out.
The term bib might more accurately describe its function.

Trakhak

But not its design. (Good point about the different functions of bibs versus diapers, though.)

Coincidence: my friend Linda and I often take turns reading aloud to each other. We're currently reading a collection of Raymond Chandler's early short stories, as published in Black Mask and equivalent pulp publications. Came across a mention of "bibless overalls" last night, which prompted a discussion of what such overalls would look like.

TiHabanero

Trakhak, I really like the idea of reading to each other. Maybe it will give us some exposure to content outside of what she/I normally read. Gonna give it a try.

Trakhak

It's great. (What follows is likely far, far too much information, but here goes.)

Over the last several decades, we've read, among much else, a lot of Dashiell Hammett and early Henry James, for example---some books more than once.

We've read James's The Europeans and The Bostonians three times each, I think. The latter, by the way, in addition to being subtly but wickedly comic, might be the best one-stop source anywhere for seeing inside the heads of members of Boston society during the earliest days of abolitionism and feminism.

Once you tune into James's style in that book, it's electrifying. The Europeans is an even more faintly comic love letter to the stiff-necked but scrupulously honorable contemporary New England conservative. He obviously enjoyed writing that one: his favorite adjectives throughout are "clear," "fresh," and "bright." Reading it lifts the heart.

We've also read the chapters on Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, and The Tempest in Harold Bloom's Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human.

Tough going, but we find that talking out what the late Bloom---a literary critic who was fiercely opinionated, particularly on the topic of Shakespeare's work being dismissed on the basis of latter-day superficial class and gender theory---is getting at, sentence by sentence, gives our brains thrilling exercise.

Bloom's title for that book neatly conveys how outrageously pugnacious a writer and thinker he was. He'd have had fun on Bike Forums.

Once you start interrupting each other to talk about anything unusual that you notice as you're reading aloud, it really gets to be fun. From yesterday afternoon's reading, for example: what did Chandler mean by "Trimmer Waltz twisted his fingers in his gloves"? Makes no sense. (Linda thought it meant that he was wearing gloves and that he was twisting his hands together with his fingers interlaced. I think he meant to write "---twisted his gloves in his fingers" and the copy editor at Black Mask didn't catch it.)